4 month sleep regression

Laura

Is anyones baby all of a sudden gone from sleeping thought the night (7.30pm-6am) to waking from 2am and refusing to sleep unless being cuddled?? He will fall asleep on me, I out him back in his cot and then will wake 45 mins later (this continues until around 5am when we give up and he sleeps on the sofa with daddy!)

I don't know how to handle it! Do I try and let him self settle? he is generally awful at this as he likes to be cuddled to sleep - I have nearly cracked this during day time naps and with a lot of crying he has managed to self settle with help from a dummy and my presence in the room.

Are your babies self settling during day and night at 4 months old?? Am I going to continue bad habits if i cuddle him when hes upset at night (I leave him for a few minutes before going into his room) or should I be encouraging self settling during the night??

Please say this regression is going to be over soon as we are all exhausted!!

Also do you have set nap times during the day? He will have 3 short naps during the day and sometimes one of those will be a couple of hours if I'm lucky!

Any suggestions are welcome!